CFPs: Single Market Programme to support Food Production and Consumption by reducing Food Waste

Objectives

• The objective of this call for proposals is to support EU stakeholders (single or multistakeholders) in taking actions to address consumer food waste (both in- and out of-home), covering types of actions such as behavioural change interventions, education and training, the elaboration and implementation of food waste prevention guidelines, food waste monitoring programs, awareness raising campaigns and communication materials, and development of new business models. Actions out-of home could, for example, take place in schools, canteens, restaurants and cafeterias.
• Proposals shall describe how the Target-Measure-Act approach is applied in the 4 steps below:
  • carrying out an initial food waste diagnosis to understand the extent of the issue and to identify the “hotspots” needing specific action (e.g., target audiences, situations where food waste arises). This could be based on a previously made diagnosis. This process should be clearly described in the proposal.
  • setting food waste reduction targets with reference to a specific baseline.
  • Project proposals should define SMART objectives and specific KPIs (ideally including reduction of food waste and/or other indicators such as changes in awareness and/or attitudes, results indicators such as outreach achieved etc.) to be utilised in monitoring progress made.
  • developing and implementing actions to tackle the hotspots identified during the initial food waste diagnosis.
  • carrying out a final evaluation at the end of the project, in order to understand the results achieved by implementing the actions, and progress made towards the targets and KPIs set. The results of the evaluation should be publicly available and accessible for key stakeholders
  • Information on projections concerning the food waste reduction trend in the long term, or for how long the action(s) proposed by the project is/are expected to bring food waste reductions, is welcome.

Funding Information 

• The estimated available call budget is EUR 4 000 000.
• Project budgets (maximum grant amount) are expected to range between EUR 100.000 and EUR 300.000 per project.
• Duration: Projects should normally range between 18 and 24 months.

Target Audience 

• This call targets both single stakeholders and multi-stakeholder collaborations or partnerships across the food supply chain including key actors such as farmers, manufacturers, retailers, food services as well as researchers, NGOs and public entities (e.g. local, regional or national authorities, educational establishments etc.).

Eligible Activities 

• A wide range of activities are eligible to be supported by the grants offered under this call for proposals, provided that they can be linked to the abovementioned objectives. The grants would cover consumer food waste prevention actions (in and out-of home) such as (non-exhaustive list):
  • behavioural change interventions (e.g. nudges to prevent food waste at consumer level such as specific tools and prompts for households and in food services, coaching programmes, etc.);
  • education and training (e.g. school programmes, staff training and actions in school canteens);
  • awareness raising campaigns (e.g. local, regional or national scale);
  • measurement and reporting tools and solutions for preventing food waste at consumption level (e.g. mobile applications and other monitoring tools beyond self reporting);
  • studies, data collection and experimental actions widening the evidence base for consumer food waste prevention interventions (e.g. audience segmentation studies to better tailor and target actions).

Eligibility Criteria 

• In order to be eligible, the applicants (beneficiaries and affiliated entities) must:
  • be legal entities (public or private bodies)
  • be from an eligible country, i.e.:
  • EU Member State (including overseas countries and territories (OCTs).
• Beneficiaries and affiliated entities must register in the Participant Register — before submitting the proposal — and will have to be validated by the Central Validation Service (REA Validation). For the validation, they will be requested to upload documents showing legal status and origin.
• Other entities may participate in other consortium roles, such as associated partners, subcontractors, third parties giving in-kind contributions, etc.

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